What do you think "A" * "B"
means? Why? Have you read R's Introduction manual? -- Bert On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Jun Shen <jun.shen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Jeff, > > It did work in one way if I use > > xyplot(Y~X|as.factor(ID*PERIOD),data=...) > > But I would like to do something like > > xyplot(Y~X|as.factor(paste("ID=",ID)*paste("PERIOD=",PERIOD)),data=...) > > Then, it didn't work > > The error message: > Error in paste("ID=", ID) * paste("PERIOD=", PERIOD) : > non-numeric argument to binary operator > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Jeff Newmiller > <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>wrote: > >> Set up a single (factor) variable that identifies the combinations that >> exist, and plot using that variable. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... >> DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live >> Go... >> Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing >> Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with >> /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> Jun Shen <jun.shen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >Dear all, >> > >> >In a plot command like >> > >> >xyplot(Y~X|ID*PERIOD,data=...) >> > >> >xyplot will generate all the possible ID*PERIOD combinations. But not >> >all >> >of them have data in there. So I have a lot of empty plots. How can I >> >suppress those empty plots and ask xyplot only to generate plots >> >actually >> >with data. Thanks. >> > >> >Jun >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> >______________________________________________ >> >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> >PLEASE do read the posting guide >> >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.